Advanced PDF to HTML converter

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Editors' Review

This program earns points for its ease of use and speed, although its conversion method places it out of the reach of average users. Advanced PDF to HTML Converter's main window is clear-cut and well arranged, so we doubt most folks will find themselves lost. After choosing a PDF you want to encode as HTML files, you select what format the application should use to save graphics and specify how you want it to handle vectors. You then can change the color of your pages' background and links and pick from one of three output templates. We'd also suggest tweaking the font size, as the default setting is too small for most people to comfortably read. In terms of output speed, the program does a fine job, quickly converting a large, complex PDF in only a few seconds. It had no problem keeping the formatting of the original file intact, but since it saves graphics and text for each page as two separate files, you'll have to know how to code to piece them back together. Although some folks might find Advanced PDF to HTML Converter useful as a simple extraction tool, users with programming experience will be able to tap its full potential.

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Publisher's Description

Convert PDF files into HTML so they can be used for online browsing. Graphics, hyperlinks, bookmarks and lines will all be preserved. This version has the added option to save all pages into single HTML document with improved support for different languages. Automatically recognizes rotated pages and rotates them for more suitable reading.

Version 1.9.9.16 enhances navigation panel, adds the Print icon to the navigation bar, adds the option to set the margins in the HTML files.

What's new in this version:

Version 1.9.9.16 enhances navigation panel, adds the Print icon to the navigation bar, adds the option to set the margins in the HTML files.

I tried to convert a PDF with a lot of illustrations to html. This program, like almost all of them I sampled, created a garbage html file in which almost all the illustrations were separated from their associated paragraphs. Most programs created a similarly jumbled file. I thought the file might be too difficult for an off-the-shelf program to convert, but one program, Click-to-Convert, did do the job quite well.

1 time out of 20 it worked as indicated. Your chances of hitting the lottery are better. Could be good program. With no instructions, and no person to ask about the operation it is like learning to swim by being thrown into the water and hoping.,

Cons

I realize the pros have cons, but I could not come up with any reason to use this conversion, it is unlikely they will sell a sufficient quantity to pay for the development of a proper help system.

Summary

The purporse of the program is great. It it worked it would be even better. There are so many holes in the program it would cause it to sink faster than the Titanic.

Programs have a number of issues. They must be usable without a 400 page manual. They should be intuiative. In other words they should have a tendency to lead one from one logical step to the next without that much help. Using a word to difine a word is definitely not the way to go. Eg. Type in an X. Put an X on the spot. That is not a way to define the proper way to give instructions.

Believe me when I tell you that this could not be a personal attack. I can't find a person to ask anything, so this is quite out of the question. If I could use profanity, I would just use it to say how terrible the program is to use and that is a compliment.

Converts lines in correct formats. Other programs fail at table line drawing, drawing borders through the text. This program, so far is the only one I have found that does this correctly.

Cons

After conversion, in an HTML editor it is not pure text - looks like stiched together editable pieces. No problem until you hit the enter key to insert a line. It fails. Saves each file in a separate folder - have to manually access each folder.

Summary

Good buy for the money I guess. I wouldn't pay more for it. Needs option to save html files all in one folder so you can batch process them easy after conversion ie import all to an html help authoring tool without having to open all the individual folders manually. Has valuable options to resize text during conversion. The navigation pane looks lousy and overwrites itself on screen, but I do not need that anyway.

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